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DEPARTMENT  TR A XS-3U SSISSIPPI, 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  SHREVEPOBT,  LA.,  Awo.  4,  18G3.      J 

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GENERAL  ORDERS, 


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SuBBVEPonr,  La. 
NO.  33.  '  [ 

mHt£V^re'Kd^itSudero"e!„tSe°^  1«'52.  having  been,  by  proc|a- 

law  ;  the  commaudaut  of  Coa.cripts  for  Ibe  De  irtS  of  T^n?M?SL^  J^it  r^fu'"'  ;'^'>»t'"^'i°'u"*"P'  ^^ 
and  issue  such  ur.Jers  us  may  b«  accessary  for  Ih'e  rnToltcntIf  aU  fuTpSs        '"'*''""  **^'  '""'^  "*""" 

By  command  of 

Lieut.  Gen.  E.  KIRBKY  SMITH, 
IT    1'      II-        m  •„  **•  ^-  AxDKBSdN,  A.  A.  Oea." 

45.  who  arnl'fLg^^^^Ji^PJ?^^  '^'^^  '^  -->'•  -  coaseripU.all  persona  between  the  agea  of  18  and 

By  command  of 

Brig.  Gen.  GREER. 

W.  Stedman,  a.  a.  Oen. 


llK'^JLTi^UAirrKUS  BUREAU  OF  CONSCRIPTION,! 

DEPARTMENT  TK AiXS-MlJ^SlSSlPPI,  [ 

SHUEVEP015T,  LA.,  Auo.  4. 1803-       I 

.  GENERAL  OliDERS, )  ' 

NO.   7.  \ 

I.  The  (ollowiug  General  Oeder  from  the  Department  Headquarters,  is  published  for  tho  information  of  all 

«;nncernei : 

"HEADQUARTERS.  DEPARTMENT   TRANS-MISSISSIPPI,) 
SuREVKPOKT,  La.,  July  2J,  1863. < 

t-  »  *  •  *  *  *  i^  *  «* 

II.  "  1  he  enrollment  of  conscripts  is  Holely  under  the  direction  of  the  Conscript  Bureau,  the  officers,  thereof, 
:ictiug  under  ordein  from  the  Department  Headquarters,  all  other  officers  are  tlierelore  forbidden  to  enroll  conscripts 
or  recrnii  from  persons  within  conscript  ages,  unless  by  special  permission  in  writing  from  the  Department 
commami'-'r. 

Bv  command  of 

Lieut.  Gen.  E.  KERHY  SMITH. 

8.  S.  ANDKK80N,  A.  A.  Gen." 
II.  rrTioers  and  others  autiiorized  to  recruit  or  form  new  organizations  an.i  not  havin;,'  special  permission  in 
writing  fiom  llie  Deiiarlmcnt  commander  to  recruit  from  or  culist  persons  wittiiu  the  conscript  ages,  cannot  receive 
Kucn  perhins  until  nftcr  they  have  been  enrolled  and  assigned  to  them  by  compfient  authority.  Officers  who  violate 
Ibis  order  will  be  arr'\'iteil  and  punished  by  a  Court  Martial,  and  conscripts  who  may  enter  organizaiioas  now  formed 
or  in  prooiiss  of  formalioii,  before  they  are  regularly  enrolled  aud  assigned,  will  be  deemei  di-serters  and  punished 
accordingly. 

By  command  of 

Brig.  Gen.  GREER, 

W.  Stkdman,  a,  a.  Oen. 


HEADQUARTERS  BUREAU  OF  CONSCRIPTION,  | 

DEPA.RTMENT  TRANS-MISSISSIPPI,  f 

8UREVEP011T,  LA.,  Auo.  4,  1863.     J 
GENERAL  0KDP:RS,) 

NO.  8.  f 

Federal  deserters  between  the  ages  of  18  and  45,  who  come  within  the  Contoderato  lines,  >ire  reauired  to  take 
the  oath  nt'  allegiance  to  tho  Conl'i'deiate  Government  and  submit  to  be  enrolled  as  consoripis,  lu  whicn  c^ise  they  will 
be  detaile-1  as  teamsters  or  to  such  other  duty  us  will  not  expo-<e  them  to  t'e  hizard  of  capture  by  the  enemy.  If 
they  refuse  to  take  the  oath  and  be  enrolled,  enrolling  officers  will  arrest  tliLin  -iud  hold  them  subject  to  the  orders 
of  the  Dejartraent  or  District  commander. 

By  command  of 

Brig.  Gen.  GREER, 

\V.  Stbdman,  A.  A.  Qen. 


Ienh|iiiiftfr0  'lircenii  nf  Cnnsrn|itiira.". 

DEPARTMKNT  TRANS-MISSISSIPPI, 

SHREVEPOIIT,  LA.,  Auo.  4,  1863.     , 
GENERAL  ORDERS,  [ 
NO.  0.  i 

i.  The  following  Act  of  Congress  and  RcKnlations,  are  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned: 
in  Acl  to  reptal  certain  claw.cs  of  an  act  tntitlfd  an  act  to  exe.npt  certain  Persons  from  "Military  Service,  etc., 
approved  lUli  October,  18ii2. 

"  1.  The  Conf^reitx  of  the  Confederate  Slatci  of  America  do  enact,  That  so  ranch  of  the  act  approved  October 
lltb,  ISC'2,  ase.xempt-i  from  military  service  '  one  person,  either  as  ai^ent,  owner,  or  overseer,  on  each  plantation  on 
which  one  white  poison  is  require  i  to  l)e  kept  by  the  h^ws  or  ordinances  of  any  State,  and  on  wliich  there  is  no  white 
male  adult  n>t  liable  to  military  .service,  and  instates  having  no  siuh  law,  one  person,  as  a'^ent,  owner,  or  overseer, 
'-■ncach  plant;Hion  of  twenty  up!r»"f>c^,  and  on  wiiich  there  is  no  white  ma'e  adnlt  not  liable  to  military  service,'  and 
ai^'i  the  followini;  clause  of  said  acl ;  towit:  '  and.luithermore,  for  additional  police  for  every  twenty  negroes,  oti 
two  or  more  plantations,  within  five  miles  of  each  other,  and  each  havini;  Lss  than  twenty  negroes,  and  on  which 
there  is  no  white  mule  adult  not  liable  to  military  duty,  one  person,  being  the  oldest  of  the  owners  or  overseers  on 
»uoh  plantation,"  he  andaru  hereby  repealed. 

"  2.  For  the  poliot;  and  iuana;!^eiin.iil  of  slaves  there  diall  ha  exempted  one  person  ou  each  farm  or  plantation., 
lii  -  -■;ic  pi'iocrty  of  a  minor,  a  i>e:soa  of  un.^on'id  m\m\,  feme  sole,  or  a  per.son  absent  from  home  in  the  milita-y  or 
:  •.  .;  .--oivice  of'th.^  Confederacy,  on  which  there  ai-c  twenty  or  r.iore  sUvc.-s:  proviA.^d  v\\ii  pe.^..)  i ..  i  exompted  was 
v:ii;>l  jod  and  acting  as  an  overseer  previous  to  the  liith  April,  IS()2,  and  there  is  no  white  male  adult  on  Baid  farm 
or  plantation  who  i.-  not  liable  to  military  duty  ;  which  fact  shall  be  verified  by  the  aGSilavits  of  said  per.son  and  two 
lespcctable  citizens,  and  .shall  be  filed  with  the  enrolling  olficer:  ,'/»!«/ proyirfcrf  the  owner  of  such  farm  or  plantation, 
his  agent  or  lei.'al  repre.scutitive.  shall  make  i\ffidiivit  and  deliver  t,he  same  to  the  eurollmg  officer,  that  after  diligent 
cflfort  no  overseer  can  be  procured  for  such  farm  or  plantation  not  liable  to  military  duty :  prouidfd  /«rt/»fr, that 
this  c'au.se  shulj  not  extend  to  any  farm  or  plantation  ou  which  the  negroes  have  been  placed  by  d  vision  from  any 
other  farm  or  jjlantation,  sioce  the  lllh  day  of  October,  1802  :  provided  further,  that  for  every  person  e^mnted  a,s 
aforesaid,  and  during  the  period  of  such  exemption,  there'  shall  be  paid  annually  into  the  public  treasury  by  the 
owners  of  such  staves  the  sum  of  five  hundred  doHars. 

*'  3.  Snrh  othi-r  persons  shall  be  exempted  as  the  President  shall  be  satisfied  onght  to  be  exempted,  in  district.s 
of  country  deprived  of  white  or  slave  labor  indispensable  to  the  production  of  grain  or  provisions,  necessary  for  the 
'Upport  of  the  population  renniniug  at  home,  and  also  on  account  of  justice,  equity,  and  necessity. 

"  4.  In  ad.iiiion  to  the  State  ofiicers  exempted  by  the  act  of  October  llth,  18G2,  there  shall  also  be  exempted  all 
State  lifTiceis  whom  the  Governor  of  any  State  may  claim  to  have  exempted  for  the  due  administration  of  the 
L'over.inicut  and  laws  thereof  .  but  this  exemption  shall  not  continue  in  any  State  after  the  adjurnment  of  the  ni'xt 
!  egidar  sL-s.sion  of  its  Legislature,  unless  such  Legislature  shall,  by  law,  exempt  them  from  military  duty  in  the 
juurisional  army  of  the  Confederate  States. ■• 

[.\pitroved  .May  1,  ISGj.] 

II.  Any  person  claiming  exemption  under  the  2nd  Section  of  the  before  recited  act,  will  be  enrolled  as  a 
■on>'-rlpt,  an<l  upon  pi'oducing  to  the  enrolling  officer  the  affidavits,  and  paying  the  sum  therein  required,  will  be 
■  Ivt.iiii-d  by  t!j(»  latter  as  overseer  of  the  farm  or  plantation  named  in  affidavits  for  12  months.  Upon  the  expiration 
!  the  year,  the  detail  will  be  renewed  under  the  same  circumstances  and  upon  the  same  terms  and  conditions.  The 
Mint  .recjuiicd  by  tliu  act  will  be  paid  to  the  war  tax  collectorof  the  county  or  parish,  who  will  transmit  it  to  the 
'  iiief  Q(i;irlcrma.-ter  of  this  Hure.ui,  with.tut  delay. 

Jll.  Details  will  be  allowed  to  owners  and  over.seers  in  cases  not  strictly  within  the  prnvisons  of  the  said  act, 
when  jn.-tice,  erpiity,  and  necessity  so  require,  but  in  such  cases,  the  applications  must  be  supported  by  the  afifidavit 
of  the  applicant,  and  accompanied  with  a  reasonable  amount  of  sworn  testimony.  Such  applications  must  bo 
made  to  the  enrolling  officer, and  if  approved  by  him  will  be  forwarded  with  the  testimony  to  this  Bureau  for  action. 
Ill  ca.<c  of  non-approval  by  the  enrolling  officer,  an  appeal  lies  to  this  Bureau. 

By  command  of 

Brig.  Gen.  GREER, 

W,  Stkdman,  a,  a.  Gen; 


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